INTERVIEW

In the Face of Death: Craig
Scott Revisits the Columbine Shooting

The 700 Club

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 GORDON ROBERTSON: What happened to you? You were in the library under a desk.
What did you see? What happened?

CRAIG SCOTT: A teacher ran in yelling that there were two kids outside of
the school with guns shooting other kids, and she was screaming at us to get
underneath the desks. I got underneath [the desk] with two friends and we
heard the gunshots coming from outside of the school, not knowing what was
going on. It slowly was becoming more real to us as we were underneath the
table and hearing the shots coming into the school and the two shooters getting
closer to the library. They came into the library and immediately began to
shoot other kids, and they would mock students and make fun of them and laugh.
They came over to where I was and saw my friend Isaiah, who was black, and
they began to make racial slurs against him. That was the last thing he heard
in his life. Then they turned their guns toward my friend Matt. They were
both killed. I was lying next to them in complete terror, paralyzed with fear.
Soon after, they were over in my area. They left the library, leaving ten
students dead in the library and a lot injured.

GORDON ROBERTSON: To me it sounds like people were dying right next to you.
Did you ever wonder why you weren't one of the ones that was killed? Have
you ever thought that?

CRAIG SCOTT: I believe that God spared my life for a reason. I believe that
even on that day He was in control.

GORDON ROBERTSON: Did He speak to you during this time? I hear that you actually
heard His voice.

What did He tell you?

CRAIG
SCOTT: I was underneath the library [desk], and I heard Him speak to me and
say simply to get out of there. Usually, God speaks to me as a small voice
or by leading me with the Holy Spirit. But this was more of a voice. It was
the most peaceful, understanding voice I have ever heard. I got up and helped
rally some of the other students that were still in the library, saying, 'Come
on, I think they are gone. Let's get out of here.' We ran out through an emergency
exit to safety behind some cop cars out in a field. Soon after we had all
gotten out, the two shooters returned to the library. I think that if we had
been in there, more of us probably would have been killed.

GORDON ROBERTSON: Your sister Rachel didn't make it out. The report has been
that, before she was killed, the shooters mocked her belief in God, that she
was targeted specifically by them. Is that true? Is that what happened?

CRAIG SCOTT: Yes. She had a boy that was with her outside the school eating
lunch. From his account, they shot from a distance, hitting Rachel three times.
They knew Rachel. They had a class with her. They knew she was a Christian,
and they began to mock her for her faith saying, 'You still believe in God
now?' and things like that. She said she did, and they said, 'Go be with him!'
Then she took a fatal shot through her temple.

GORDON ROBERTSON: One of the bullets actually went through a journal she
had. There is a bullet hole in it. She had that journal with her. In the journal
was a prayer for one of the boys who killed her. What was she praying for?

CRAIG SCOTT: Rachel had a mission in Columbine, and that was to reach out
to the unreached. She had that journal as well as another journal in her backpack,
which included a powerful drawing that she drew. I believe it was also prophetic.

GORDON ROBERTSON: We have it on the screen right now. It is a flower, a rose.

CRAIG
SCOTT: That picture was drawn less than an hour before she was killed. There
are 13 teardrops and there were 13 victims that day. When she drew that picture,
a friend says she was drawing it in class and wouldn't look up. She then came
up to her teacher and showed her the picture. The last thing that she said
to the teacher was 'People are going to know who I am some day.' The bell
rang and she left class, and that was the last time the teacher ever saw her.
That rose that she drew she also drew in another picture growing out of a
Columbine flower. God spoke to my dad when he first saw that journal in her
backpack, saying that they were not only Rachel's tears, but they were God's
tears and they were crying for what happened at Columbine. The rose represented
the generation of today and they were growing spiritually from what happened
at Columbine.

GORDON ROBERTSON: You have been around the country since the massacre. For
me personally when it was going on, watching the news reports and just being
shocked, I was thinking, How could this happen?What is going on
with our country? Yet you say that God was at work during it and He is
using it afterward. How?

CRAIG SCOTT: I have been able to see through. I think God allowed me to see
through the tragedy that day and into His invisible hand bringing good from
it, a lot of good. So many people have been touched by hearing stories of
faith that have come out of Columbine. I have seen thousands of teenagers'
lives that have been touched and have wanted to make a change because of Columbine.
There have been different things that have risen from it. There are wonderful
programs, and I was definitely able to see through evil and to see God bring
good from it.

GORDON ROBERTSON: You started something called the American Students' Fund
that you are a part of. Can you tell us quickly about that?

CRAIG SCOTT: It is a revolutionary new approach to character education. It
is a program that is trying to grab onto the morality that is dwindling in
schools. What happens is we go to a school and the students vote on 13 character
traits that they feel are important to them. Through four different groups,
we try to show those traits in the school and through the greater community.

GORDON ROBERTSON: Craig, I wish I could talk to you more. God bless you.